It’s Banana!

Hello everyone! Happy Hump Day! Before I delve into today’s post with more detail, I want to sincerely thank each and everyone of you for your response to my last post. That collaboration with Roxxlyn really took a lot of effort, time, and coordination to put together and I’m more than pleased with the results. Your response was incredible, the brand was super extra happy with the post and the photos and the reaction were also great. I hope that you also enjoyed the discount by the way, those are some really nice products and if yours are on their way I can assure you, you won’t regret that purchase. Hopefully with that response in my portfolio I can get to do more collaborations with other brands in the future, so thanks again for being such an amazing readership and being great followers.

Today on the blog, I want to talk about another collaboration that I did just a few weeks ago, with our friends from Banana Republic. They contacted me about 3 weeks ago and basically told me that they wanted to give me a preview of their new Rapid Movement chinos collection. Not only had I the opportunity of going to the store and see them in advance, but I was given total freedom to style a complete look around the chinos that I chose. Then we did a small photoshoot in downtown Seattle, very close to the Banana Republic famous flagship store. A few days later, they invited me along with other folks from the Seattle Gents to have some drinks and appetizers in that same downtown location. Overall I had an amazing time with the folks that work at the store and in the end I was able to keep the chinos from the photoshoot for myself. What a great addition to my pants collection!

For my collaboration with Banana Republic, I decided to style a look around the burgundy Aiden slim Rapid Movement chinos, since 1) I really like the boldness of the color, and 2) I wanted the chinos to fit well and slim fit tends to work the best for me. For the shirt, I went with a floral print button-down which had caught my eye since the moment that I entered the store, and I tried out two outer layers to show how easily it is to tone up or tone down the look. First, with the navy blue quilted vest, you can see how casual and relaxed this summer look can play out. For the second look, I turned up the volume a bit by pairing it with a baby blue blazer, and it made the whole outfit way more elegant and formal. For the shoes, I went with white sneakers and for the accessories an Italian leather belt and sunglasses did the work, all of them from Banana Republic. What do you think? Isn’t this perfect for our ever-changing summer weather here in Seattle? I want to thank Scotty Flores for taking these photos and everyone at the Banana Republic downtown Seattle location for helping me out with the fitting and styling for this shoot, and for hosting the Seattle Gents for a nice time together at the store.

Well that’s it for today! If you’re looking for a pair of chinos, make sure you give these ones a try and let me know in the comments what you felt about them. As for me, I’ll continue to be super busy in the upcoming weeks but I’m really excited for what’s next. This is my last post in my 20s, and I’ll get to celebrate with my Seattle friends this weekend (photos from the party coming soon). Then I’ll be traveling to Mexico for a recruiting trip all of next week, which will give me the chance to spend my actual 30th birthday with my best childhood friends and my family in Monterrey. And in that time frame I have two more fashion events, a collaboration in store, and I still have to show you how everything went a the Seattle Polo Party last weekend, which you may have seen on social media. So busy times ahead but also lots of fun stuff going on both in my personal life and on the blog, so you need to keep posted to the blog and social media for not missing any of it. I leave you for now, not without reminding you all to be stylish and to let your voice be heard. See you in a fortnight with more fashion posts and some real talk about turning 30. Till next time!

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I'm a fashion-aficionado, avid-traveler, and aspiring-writer from Monterrey, Mexico living the American dream in the US. I live in Seattle and I work in the tech industry. I decided to write a blog because I'm a big fan of style and fashion and I wanted to share this with other people. I like to travel a lot and visit new places. My motto is be bold and let the world hear your voice.